Lowarch, in case you don’t know what that is, was an i586 recompile of Arch Linux, and did amazing things for pre-i686 machines. Short of compiling it all yourself, it’s hard to find a faster, more impressive tool for recovering K6-series or similar hardware.

Unfortunately, the “developer” behind Lowarch abandoned the project, the web site fell unattended, and around the last day of 2008, the home page began to show an account closure message. That’s how it goes, when a distro finally dies.

This is the first time I’ve ever made a torrent, so I’m not sure how well it will work. LinuxTracker seems happy though, and with any luck it should be fine. As a guide I used this ancient “how-to” on Linux.com, although I used mktorrent out of the Crux repositories, rather than CreateTorrent or MakeTorrent. The ideas are the same, and it appears to have succeeded.

If you have a little bandwidth, and you don’t mind keeping Lowarch alive for a little while longer, download the torrent and let’s see if it works as expected. Who knows, maybe we’ll be helping out someone with an old Pentium system. … :roll: